Sloss and Humphries On The Road - Last Day on the Mountain Ft. Emmanuel Sonubi

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

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I have sat here in the mountains with Emmanuel Sanubi, MVP of the sesh, of Altitude 2024. You have no right to look as fresh as you look, you motherfucker. Do you know what? I don't feel fresh at all. I really want to put my sunglasses back on

because that is horribly bright. I've never, I've not been this hungover constantly for a long time you've been red-lanin since we got on the bus oh my god that that's that bus ride escalated so quickly and why do you think that was because of you and i 100 the three minute challenges you don't want you don't want someone that compliments your drinking with more drinking at the pace that you are really happy to do it. When they sell booze on the bus. Yeah.

Well, that was an issue for me. I bought a litre of vodka that I wasn't planning on bringing because before this week I'd said, I'm not drinking. I might have a couple, but I'm not really going to drink. You didn't truly believe that, though, right? Do you know when you really do? You go, yeah, that's a good idea. And then we got off the plane, going through Munich airport,

and all it took was the sign that says, deal of the day. Oh, yeah. And it was a litre of vodka, of nice vodka, for €12. I thought, well, I'll get that. That'll last me the week. And there's an ice beer on tap in the airport too, so we're waiting for the other flights to arrive. And I thought, that liter, that's going to last me the week.

Did it last you the bus? It didn't last me the bus. I literally had about four shots left in it by the time we got here. And because I didn't like any of the mixers that they had in the shop i decided that i'd use um cider apple cider as the uh as the mixer vodka and cider yeah so i remember i kicked off when this is the simplest of things right i'm just sat at the back with the girls with

saraya this is a two-hour bus from munich to maya hoffen where we're currently at altitude festival um you just come up and just get a clash of conversation with your charisma, and nobody's suspicious of anything, and then you compliment Soraya on her sunglasses, and then you compliment Natalie on hers, and then you hand them back, and they both put on each other's sunglasses.

Yeah. Like, sleight of hand. Yeah. And then you went, stop the clock, and Amy was like, 50 seconds. And what had happened is she went, three-minute challenge. You've got to make the girls swap sunglasses

without telling them what you're doing. And that's, which is a nice, fun game. No one gets hurt. It's fine. And then all of a sudden, it just escalated, and everything became a good idea. Yeah. It was like, one of them was like, Amy,

you've got three minutes to get 10 socks yeah it's just up and down the bus there's people on this bus that don't know what we're doing yeah they haven't clicked on yet eventually they start clicking on but eventually they start escalating there's one of them where hayden askins was uh told we've got three minutes to crawl to the front of the bus get a beer and crawl back on your belly like his his elbows his elbows were in tatters carpet burns all down his elbows it was so bad it was and he was like

Hayden you alright he's like yeah I'm fine and it was just it looked like he'd been crawling through gravel it was bad

wasn't it yeah D-1 and then I'd never met Tamar Catton before oh yeah he had to

and you said to me Tamar would love this game go and get Tamar to the back of the bus but he's not allowed to touch the floor yeah you've got three minutes and then I was just saying tomorrow to the back of the bus but he's not allowed to touch the floor yeah you've got three minutes and then i was just like come to the back of the bus tomorrow man i want to hang out by the way floors lava and he was like no i was like

gonna be back he's like no no i'll crush you man i was like you do you americans don't take floors lava very seriously we take it really seriously in the uk oh it was when he had to get a was it him that had to go conga line uh-huh yeah yeah it had to be a, was it him that had to go to Conger Line? Uh-huh. Yeah. It had to be a minimum of five people, including him, and he missed it by one. It was a lot of fun. But it was just stupidity. It was silly. But no one had even said forfeits.

It was just as soon as somebody'd done it, everybody just drunk. So then it was like, oh, I i do have let me think when was it yeah just going let's do shots just getting everyone involved yeah let's all do let's just do shots and i spilled out i spilled out that bus so fucking drunk man like i asked i got off at the wrong stop because it wasn't the hotel i was staying at and i knew that but arsenal man city had just kicked off and I just grabbed grabbed me bags and ran to the nearest pub

with my suitcases that that Sunday night was so Monday the amount of people that I saw

that I didn't know were here and they were like we spoke to you last night we spoke to you at the mill last night at the mill

yeah I was like I don't even know what I ate yeah and it was we spoke to you last night. We spoke to you at the mill last night. At the mill? Yeah. I was like, I don't even know what I ate. Yeah. And it was, even in the people from the bar, and I was like, I don't know when I've spoken to any of you.

That was so, so, that was the worst one of the week, but it sort of trickled into the rest of the week. Uh-huh. And we'll have to do performances around this as well. Do you know what happened last night on which one

I had just taken magic mushrooms and um Mark Nelson asked if I had any more and I was like oh but you'll have

to get them now because it's off this girl right and he was like I've got a gig in an hour and I just looked at him

and I was like do it and he took magic mushrooms just before his gig like an hour before. So the other actors are on, and like, the only thing is...

That explains so much. I have, but... But we didn't get that real, like, breakout trip visual thing. It was like, it was so weird, because it was like, it was like a CBD version of it. It felt like it wasn't like,

you were getting, like, something that was happening. I was like, I wouldn't get behind the wheel right now. It's like, I was drunk as well, so it's hard to isolate, like, what it is. But it wasn't getting you were getting like something was happening i was like i wouldn't get behind the wheel right now it's like i was drunk as well so it's hard to isolate like what it is but it wasn't getting that breakout so i was like oh he's gonna be all right here but he said his brain had just like froze to a halt and he was living in the moment and he couldn't think back to his material he couldn't think forward about the gig was gonna be like when he was uh on stage like that's i mean this makes so much sense because he started off the gig. And I don't know why because it's not a Mark Nelson thing.

He started off for some reason trying to be clean. And we're talking two minutes of this trying to be clean, and it just wasn't working. And you just saw something switching him and just go straight into some of the darkest stuff he's ever done oh because i'm just i'm gonna i'm gonna repeat other things he said last night but first we need to give it the context yeah um were you at the gig when he he was on with me and daniel and paul smith yeah at the gala show yeah what he didn't know oh yes was that Leslie Daniel and Matthew's

mother had convinced Amy look the kids are street wise they might not get everything but what they do here won't affect them too much like I brought my

kids to comedy with this young and all that they'll be alright just get them up on the balcony they can play on the phones or

whatever the fuck they do right Mark Nelson didn't know they were in and he gets into I really thought he knew they were in nope

he was gutted oh god afterwards his face his, you see his heart sink. So what Mark Nelson said on stage was, I hate it when I'm talking to parents of multiple children and they pretend like they don't have a favourite. Of course you've got a favourite. Like, for instance, my favourite's my daughter and my son's a little cunt.

Oh, and it was looking over at his little face as his dad said that. Who's his favourite? He looks so... Were you sat with him? Yeah. Oh, because I was backstage. Yeah. I had to go after.

No, so I was up in the balcony and when he started, I'm looking over the kids watching their dad and I'm thinking this is such a lovely moment because I remember when the time that my kids have seen me perform was on a cruise ship, but that was a family show and I did a clean set. Yeah, lovely. And you knew they were there.

It was tailored slightly for them. But it was nice for your kids to see what you do. Yeah, because you're leaving the house all the time and going away for weekends and stuff. And now they know exactly what it is. And so seeing their face when he started talking about him then when he said that mine's my daughter and they both just looked up and she's smiling and he's just distraught but actually hearing it because you think he doesn't know that daddy's joking right now and then even following that when he started everyone just like looked at him and made it

a bit more of a thing like you know what it was people's reactions like on the balcony everyone looked at them for every punchline as that set got darker and darker because he then he then goes into um how there was a lot about their the different types of dildos yeah that they've got that he's used on also having to throw out one of the dildos because they've got that he's used on himself and also having to throw out one of the dildos because the kid got it or something was that one he was like

your daughter's touched it was that his yes that was his as well so following that when he let loose yesterday oh that was so funny because

just to add on top of that he like said to Seamus afterwards when he found out what had happened he said I alternate

every every time I do a gig it's you or me favourite Naila's the cunt trying to explain this to an eight year old

oh god it's so bad and then I was telling a couple of comedians that that's what he had said to backtrack out of it

yeah and I just saw Kate Williams Andy Askins' daughter just the penny drop that that's what he had said to backtrack out of it yeah and i just saw kate williams and yaskins's daughter just the penny drop that that's what her dad's been saying to her oh wow childhood it's all right sometimes it's amy sometimes it's hayden and she just she just believed it it's just like oh so that's just what you say to the kids that you're really well yes um and then last night, what was the line? It was something along the lines of, I don't know if anyone was there at the Gala show.

He said something about Seamus being his favorite child and that one, and everybody laughed. And I goes, I see you all at the Gala show where I created a school shooter. Oh, brilliant line. He's going to have to record two specials now yeah because i show one i show one of them one the other one the other yeah uh never sit down and watch it as a family oh you can't now like there there are some things that um i don't let my kids watch of what i've done because they're not old enough to know that daddy's joking. Yeah.

And, um, I think Noah already heard it on a, I think he heard it on the radio and I was like, do you know what? I can't stand either one of them. And he was just like, daddy,

he was like, no, it's just for the radio, mate. Just for the radio. I don't mean it. Of course. Just for the approval of strangers.

Yeah, it's fine. Your emotions are collateral damage in this little exchange. Oh, man. Well, I've actually started thinking that I need to get some footage of me saying really nice things about my kids because I don't know why it dawned on me. I was thinking if anything happens to me

and they start watching clips back when they're older there is no clips of me saying anything nice about them at all so you need some earnest stuff so do you want to just get a soundbite on this podcast and we'll cut the context we'll cut out the context of you

setting up the footprints this is just going to be used as a tool just watch this clip and nothing else that i've ever done that's so funny i say something nice about your kids and then you'll just sit there just pondering a minute of dead air like you did like you did yesterday on the on the reverence chair chairlift confessions me and emmanuel done this show where um you have to sit down and confess a couple of sins yeah and then ask it to say something good you've done in life and the audience decide whether the good thing you've done

offsets the sins that you've done. And he clearly hadn't given you the prep. Oh, no. And that you had to come up with. So you turned up with your sins and he asked you to say something good that you've done and you just had a memory blank. So I'll tell you what that was about.

They started playing the countdown music? Yeah. And it'll tell you what that was about. They started playing the Countdown music? Yeah. And it was, when they start that music, you cannot think that nothing's happening at that point. But I'll tell you what it was. All the nice things that I've done,

all that I do, I didn't want to say any of them because I do them. It wouldn't be altruistic anymore yeah i do them i don't do them to tell anyone that i've done them and that's sort of the part of me that i keep to me that's sacred yeah anonymous donations yeah it's i tell the thing that i can't stand when people feel themselves helping someone oh that is abhorrent i think yeah the worst people. Yeah, you're costing the dignity

of the person who you're giving the money to. You're buying that dignity off them. You're getting something for that money and it's fucking... I can't stand those people. I think if you're in a position to help someone, you've got a moral obligation to do so.

Yeah, so download the comedian's box and you can get it done. All proceeds with the challenge. So there's loads of stuff you think that's happened over the last few years, but that's the stuff that if you're a part of it, you know about, but I'm not going to use that to offset something bad that I've done. Yeah, exactly. That's why I used the good thing that I did was carrying my wife's skis.

The only nice thing I could think of was that kid that I got the taxi home for that was really, really drunk. Oh, yeah. This is a funny story, actually, because you put him in a taxi based on the address on his driving license. And I thought I was being really,

I thought I was colombo level clever i figured out this this kid's live and just sent him home yeah no taxis would take him and i looked after make sure it was all right put him in a taxi sent him off and it was one of my mates uh said how do you know where he lives his driving license i don't think my driving license got my current address on it yeah and that's what he said after. He goes, what if that's not his current address? Because you just wait until it's nearly expired

and then do it again. Mm-hmm. I always find it weird that they put your address on your driving licence. Just so like, you know, if you lose your stuff,

everybody knows where you live. Well, it's unnecessary. If you lose your bag and it's got your house key and your wallet, they're like, oh, cool, an address and a key

to the address. What a fucking unnecessary thing to do right just put my email address and phone number on there as well and you put your mother's maiden name you think about it it's got there's no reason to have your address on i mean your insurance documents yeah fine but that's no one ever loses those in the street but you don't need your address on your driving license it's pointless yeah i don't know how that hasn't been like changed yet i don't know why people haven't made a fuss about it well there's loads of data protection issue yeah there's loads of stupid laws that have never been changed and things like that i think you still have you still had any carriages are still meant

to have a barrel of hay in in the back of, legally. Is that right? Yeah, that's the old taxis. Is this like the thing when they say policemen have got to let a pregnant woman pee in the hat if they need to pee? Yeah. Is that true? Because I've never really looked into it. Snopes will know. Snopes will know. I did look into one of them, and I talked about this on a podcast with Mark, but Berwick was at war with Russia for like 110 years or something.

I'm going to get the statistics of it wrong, but it was like something like when there was the Crimean War or something, Queen Victoria declared war, but when she declared peace, she missed out that you have to add Berwick. It's always like in the dominions overseas. It's not the United Kingdom. It's not just the United Kingdom. There's all these things at the end, and Berwick was left off so beric remained at war with russia

and then like it was something like in the 60s the mayor of russia come to an agreement sorry the mayor of beric come to an agreement with the russian diplomats and then made a statement that the russians can sleep easily at night now that they're at piece that's like that's like a whole generation a couple of generations of people they're like are we are we still at war i don't i don't know if i'm meant to hate them still uh yes is that what matthew's got some data it just says a pregnant woman can use the pregnancy as a lawful defense for urinating anywhere, which technically includes a policeman's hat. Right, so to repeat that a pregnant woman can use, say it

again, they can use public property. They can piss anywhere. They can piss anywhere, which is like so people have, so the myth of that's like they could have picked any item in a policeman's hat, the one item that they've chosen, which is actually. So they don't have to give you the hat, but if you want to piss in it,

you go, I'm pregnant. I had a funny moment, I would say, the last one, when they wouldn't let Natalie back in for a pee, so I pretended she was pregnant, and then they still wouldn't let her in, and I got really angry that they wouldn't let my pregnant... Even though she wasn't pregnant,

he didn't know that she wasn't, and he wasn't going to let my pregnant wife in, and I got so fucking angry. I was ready to fight this doorman. And then Natalie was like, Kai, he's been watching us drinking all night. He's not letting us in because I'm a bad mother. Do you know there was, oh God, there was a,

I mean, a friend's a strong term, an acquaintance of mine. Daniel Sloss. I mean, a friend's a strong term, an acquaintance of mine. Daniel Sloss. I was playing this comedy club in London, and a friend of mine came with his wife. Yeah. I say friend.

I know him. Not friends. I never speak to him, hence why I'm telling you this story. Yeah. He came to the show. Didn't know they were going to be there. And she's there, she sat there,

I guess I'd say three, four months pregnant, she got a bump. Yeah. And they're just sat there throwing back pints, the both of them. And I'm on stage doing my set, but I'm looking at them thinking, the fuck is wrong with you?

She's pint after pint and then i find out she weren't pregnant she just put on a load of weight honestly you didn't mention it luckily i didn't mention it because had i not known them i'd have i'd have mentioned it because it was one of those where there was in my mind there was no question. It was, because it wasn't just sort of, it was a pot belly, but it looked solid like a pregnancy bump. Yeah, right, like it had the kind of PSI of a pregnancy bump rather than the

jelly of it. It didn't look like there was any sort of flab, it was just the belly. And I just thought, irresponsible. Wow. I've seen a comment about a pregnant woman go really well at a gig. It was risky. And I've seen a comment go really bad.

And I'll tell you, Adam Bloom done the one that worked. Yeah. And Daryl Martin did the one that bombed. Oh, what happened? And it's all about stagecraft and charm and what you do. So the Adam Bloom one, he was chatting to someone that's pregnant. He just had a girl not so long ago. And he was chatting to someone that's pregnant he just had a girl not so long ago

and he was like oh is it a boy or a girl and then she was like oh we don't know yet we're not going to find out and he got the make stand and he hovered it over our belly

and twisted it around as if he was doing a scan and he goes it's a it's a goner and it worked it got a laugh she thought it was funny

charmed his way through it a lot like you saw Daryl Martin saw a girl on the front row It got a laugh. She thought it was funny. Charmed his way through it. A lot like you saw, Daryl Martin saw a girl on the front row that, presumed correctly, that she was pregnant and she had a glass of red wine in her hand, right? And he was like, so you're drinking wine and you're pregnant.

All right, why don't in the interval we just go and smoke a 20-decker cigarette and kill it? Oh, that'd be charmless. Oh, that's not even... And it fucking stunk the room out. interval we'll just go and smoke a 20 deck of cigarettes and kill it totally charmless oh that's not even it's fucking stunk the room i was at the back like no i've got to go on oh god some some people there's i remember watching this open mic back when i first started do one of the worst worst jokes it wasn't even a joke it was that bad and you just see i've never seen someone well i

have actually lose a room like that and it was just deafening silence and was it aimed at somebody or was it just the material no it's the material itself and he was back he started off by saying um how he was much younger as well his generation of people, no one likes them. And we're all thinking, because in this room, the average age has got to be like 30-ish. Are them bells still tolling? Is it like 30 o'clock now? What time is it?

Is it like 45 o'clock? I know this is a sweat pit, Matthew, but let's shut the door and the window just until that fucking chime stops. Yeah. fit matthew with a leg let's shut the door on the window just until that fucking chime and stops yeah yeah so he's um he started off with this the the whole premise was he doesn't like his generation either and we're all on board at this point because neither do we and and it's like yeah we've got we've got no patience for anything. And he starts off by going into, he goes, when you go online and you try and open up a page and it doesn't respond,

and then you get a notification that comes up that says, the page is not responding, do you want to wait for it to respond or do you want to terminate the page? And I was just like, I don't know where you're going. And he goes, imagine if that happens in everyday life. Imagine you're driving down the road in your Bentley. I'm thinking, we're in a dive pub in the middle of London. No one here is relating to that.

No one here. And the webpage doesn't do that, right? It's not responding. It doesn't give you options. Yeah, exactly that. And he's going, imagine you're driving your Bentley and it just stops responding i was like well someone clearly doesn't have a driving license because that's not how cars work

and he goes and he just started to lose the room anyway he goes and you and it says you want to wait for your bentley to respond or terminate it and now we're just confused yeah because it makes no sense and then he doubles down he goes or imagine you've just had a baby and i was just like oh please don't don't do it and he'd done the same thing the baby's not responding baby's not responding do you want to wait for it to respond or just terminate it now and i was like you've got that was that was his rule of three he did he done the web page the bentley then the baby he stopped he thought that's just yeah he stopped after it and waited for the laughter. In his mind, that was gold.

And it was like the most awkward 30 seconds because he really waited for the laughter. And everyone in the room, because I'm thinking, you've got no idea who's in this room. You might be speaking to people that have lost children, even people that can't conceive. There's so many different people in here that now probably hate you and and that was this is i hate a more forbidden reality to make this shit joke because that yeah that that's really jarring if someone got one example i have is i saw somebody

talking about they saw somebody's status and it was a boot uh ma'am dying or something and they clicked like and i was like oh I shouldn't like that so I unliked it but it just liked it again and I tried to unlike it and it liked it like seven or eight times you can't multiple like a Facebook status once you say like it's just there like he never used Facebook

is this AI written this because this was way back as well this was before you could even get the options of like the things I mean especially if it's stuff that people know about. You just go, that's just terrible. But this guy came off and his first thing was, oh, the audience weren't great tonight, were they? I was like, they were fine.

You're an arsehole. Yeah, he fucked it. That was all you. I feel like not being able to blame yourself early in your career is a surefire way that you'll never ever be professional i think not you need to you mean you've got to i think you've got to accept accountability for the good and the bad i do think when it comes to an audience, like it's your job. They've bought the laugh. They've already paid for the laugh.

Deliver. It's your, it's your job to deliver. And if you, if you don't deliver, I feel bad about it. Do some troubleshooting and try not to short change to the next crowd. That's similar to that one.

Yeah. I've done it where I've got jokes wrong and it's just made me think, right, that word choice isn't as good as saying it like this. The next time you do it, right, now it's better. Take a bigger break. I mean, you've got to I mean, you can learn from good gigs. You learn from any sort of bad gig as well.

And you can learn from turning up and watching the entire gig. I hate it when they come in for their spot and fuck off on their new material. I really, really like to, any gig I'm doing, I need to get there. If I don't turn up late, I'll get there for the whole gig.

Because plus, I want to know what the context is of what everyone else has said. Because there's times I've turned up to gigs and there's been two comics before me that have spoken about their kids. So I'm now not going to go up and speak about my kids. Or at least make it so it makes the whole show flow and you tie it in to what someone was saying.

I was chatting to them backstage about that and I was saying this. And sometimes it's nice to do a callback from earlier in the show, but you can only do that if you've been there. So I'm with you. People that sort of turn up just before their spot and then just leave.

That's one thing that's great about this festival is you don't just call back to the show that you're on. You can call back to previous shows. I did that yesterday. There was a joke that I did about my dad yesterday that was from, it was a callback from Monday's show. Great.

And I wasn't going to do it. I thought, you know what? They have been all week. Let's see how much on my set they remember. Great. And I wasn't going to do it. I thought, you know what? They have been all week. Let's see how much on my set they remember. Yeah. And like 80% of them got it. I was like, yes.

You know, it's a, I don't know. I don't know. Call back after Rob Rosa just done the, um, done the song about the little horse, massive cock on the,

on the drive to the all night garage. Yeah. But he doesn't like such a jazz kind of yeah it's so fucking funny and then when i went on after him i was like that um that song there was actually about uh ryan cullen they called back to two years ago when we've done jokes about the size of cullen's cock and like like not only the people who were there two years ago got it but it become part of altitude law yes it but it's become part of altitude lore that like it's the chat

of like what's happened in previous altitudes the chat on the gondolas like people talk about things that happened at previous festivals when they're filling in the newcomers what's happened and then they're getting callbacks to something that happened two years ago and Ryan Cullen's penis is now that of legend and it's attached to that man

what a fucking waste. What a waste. He still won't shout to me. I've tried multiple times outside because I wasn't there that day. I was like, just let me see it. I've tried getting him drunk. It just won't happen.

Did you see what I did to your brother, Jack? Matthew. I went up to Jack, right? I was just in my snowboard and gear. I was at the top of the mountain and I had my boxers on, but I just pulled my salopettes forward. And I went, do you want to look at right, and I was just in my snowboard and get out to the top of the mountain and I had my boxes on, but I just pulled my salopettes forward and I went, do you want to look at me cock?

He was like, no. And I went, God, you've changed since you were nine. Oh, you're prude. You never were prude when you were a kid. I never prude as a kid. I've known him since he was nine. Such a funny thing. a kid I've known him since he was nine such a funny thing hey did you see um Paul Smith on the if you were on the balcony when Mark Nelson said that about his kids you would have seen Paul

Smith's uh take the lad in the front row's phone yes you are there for that so uh he's called Dom and he's there he's a group of Welsh lads there? Yes. I think it was like a dad that used to bring his kids. The kids are adults now. And now they bring all their mates. Dick Ed Dom. Dick Ed Dom. He is just infamous about the festival now. But he's a really good sport, actually.

He's not been a dick. He's going to be something of legend now as well. Dick Ed Dom will be part of the Altitude stories that go ahead from here on out so this is what went down right he was on his phone like phone pointing at Paul Smith while Paul Smith was hosting

and he was like the fuck you doing on your phone at the gig and he was like one of my friends is meant to be here but isn't here like I'm snapchatting him just to give him FOMO or whatever like he was just trying to put him off. Like, he was trying to, like, make his mate angry instead of living in the moment,

which he owes me a dick by doing that. And then Paul snatched his phone, and then he started, like, looking at the messages between, and then he saw a notification from Andrew Tate, and he was like, oh, you are a fucking bellend, right? And then he came out to one of his friends on Instagram or Snapchat or something, came out to one of his friends on Instagram or Snapchat or something, came out to one of his friends

and then he was like, I bet you've got dick pics on here. And he started scrolling through and fucking Dom lost his mind. He like jumps off his seat. He started chasing Paul around the venue. It turned into Benny Hill. You needed the music. They're literally just running around and I was like, they're both actually quite rapid

so it did look like quite a bit of a cartoon. And you had all that pushing chairs out to try and block Dom and Dutch would stand in the way. I'll tell you what Paul Smith done really well. He took it right to the line of frustration. Yeah, he doubled down. He was like, as long as this lad's got a smile on his face, I'm doing it. And he gave it back at the right time. Perfect time, yeah.

Because it was when he was defeated. It was when he sat down, he was sweating and he gave it back at the right time perfect time yeah because it was when he was defeated yeah it was when he sat down he was sweating and he looked sad yeah because now the audience

was starting to sympathise with him and so when he did give it back he got a nice round of applause for it as well so I was like he did really well

of keeping that line because I reckon I probably would have taken it too far yeah just because I thought this is something else yeah you would have sent it to hilarious you would have sent it to someone

I would have texted mum or something I'd have found someone really weird to do because it's funny in the room at the time when everyone's getting in on it and then all of a sudden the festival's over and you're like did you hear what Emmanuel did? he ruined a guy's life it was really weird but he phoned a dick picker

it wasn't even Dom's dick. It wasn't his dick and it was edited. It was Photoshopped to be bigger. That was the weird part. He Photoshopped someone else's dick bigger. He was saying it was because something about his friend had posted it and he made it bigger for him and sent it back. I still don't understand how that would come about.

I'm like, that's a lie. I reckon you wanted to send it to a girl and you wanted to make it look like that was yours. I'd get the images written on it. Yeah. And it was black. It was mine. It's so funny.

And then Nina Gilligan got him up last night as well. Yeah. And again, he was a good sport about that he's been a good sport the whole way through actually I think he's quite

enjoyed it actually yeah I think he's enjoyed that everybody on the slopes knows who he is yeah even though they're calling him dickhead Dom

and we had dick pics on his phone and all that like no one hates him everyone thinks he's a good kid yeah he is do you know what

and he is he's a nice dude but he's do you know what and he is he's a nice dude but he's been involved in every story that's happened and most of it is his own fault yeah

and yeah he keeps turning up to the gigs oh and we recorded we recorded a podcast on the mountain this one's going to

come out before it so this is going to come out because we've got a bit of editing to do for the one that we did on the mountain how much are you into football oh not even a little bit i know nothing about football

okay so an ex-manager of newcastle united was in the podcast we had to do it like silent disco yeah because they're instead of having the pa because it was outdoors and it would have been weird yeah the atmosphere of it so we didn't use the silent disco so they could hear us when we were talking like they'll just listen to a podcast and i mentioned about how i saw alan pardew uh on the mountain and uh and they were like he's in the audience now and i just wasn't i was drunk i'd been doing whiskey tasting and that and i was like alan get on the podcast right fucking now and he got up and jumped on the podcast that's very cool and he's been at every single gig has he ex-newcastle manager hasn't missed a single show but again that's what's nice about it.

Everyone goes to pretty much everything. So it's like one long gig. And I think we spoke about it earlier, the standard of comics, you've got a festival full of closers. So you go, you've got to be great. You've got to be great now. Like you see, Rob Rouseouse this week has been absolutely incredible i still i still think it's uh i told jack um what i said about him when he told me that he

wasn't that this is funny tell the story uh the really put my accidentally put my foot in it with um jack it was meant to be the running order was meant to be Jack Leto on, sorry, Rob Rouse, Jack Leto, then me closing. Because they needed another act for the gala show

and Brett wanted to. And we were running late. We were running late and he wanted to cut the show down. He's gone, Jack, out you go. Do the gala tomorrow. And and then so then jack's coming i'm just in the toilet jack's um he's gone to the toilet he's gone by the way i'm not on today

because they want to cut the show down i'm doing the gala show um so it'll just be uh rob then you and just as instinct because of rob's show the other night. I went, oh, I don't want to follow Rob. I was like, I don't want to follow you either, mate. I didn't want to follow you as well. But Rob, though. And it was like, this is really awkward now. There's no sort of, because what I meant was. How did he respond?

I think he was so tired it went over his head. Did it? Right, because you know what? Until I brought it up at the gig. I don't know how long, yeah, you mentioned it on the show. I don't know how long Jack's been going. Yeah. But I know Rob's been going a lot longer than I have.

Yes. He's got a wealth of experience under his belt. Yeah. I would not be offended if someone was like, I'd rather follow me than Rob. I'm like, yeah, of course. Uh-huh. Because what i was talking

about was me and jack are very very different acts so it makes a really good palate cleanser to have him on and then me yeah because i'm to get in yeah because you got rob who's going to be doing a lot of observational stuff i'm going to be doing a lot of observational stuff and we do stuff at very different places so it would be nice to have that gap between the two of us and then when he's um i was nervous nervous enough anyway and then through his set and his set he ends on a song his set was going his set was going great to the level you go all right i'm gonna i'm i'm i'm gonna match this level and then he does that song that just does that. And even behind stage, Paul Smith, everyone goes,

ha, ha, ha, you've got to go after that. He's just getting like the crowd, I'm reaching that peak and you can see the song is coming to a crescendo and I just turned to you and Paul Smith and Scott Bennett and Brett and all that were there and I was like, I'll bring you straight on. Everyone was like, what? I was like, absolutely not, please.

I need you to do a solid 20 of bad jokes as well even Paul was like I would just

bring you straight on couldn't move that I'd have done the same I'd have wanted to do the same

you would be able to be mad at me if I brought you straight on you'd have been allowed to be mad

oh that would be that was that'd be... That was... That'd be me. Do you know what? Anyone following Rob Rouse, like, he's been on form this week.

Like, he was... Even watching this show yesterday. When he was bent over on the table, he dragged the table in, and he was bent over on the table, just, like, talking through his prostate exam. Yeah. It was perfect.

He's got so many little lines in there that like everything's incredible anyway but there's extra lines in that I just think there's so many little comedy bombs

throughout the whole set that one where he was crushing they couldn't have been laughing harder and he looked at them like they weren't on board and went

you've got to come with me on this one yeah it was such a funny thing to do I said to him last night, there was, got to the point of that show, I went past laughter.

Uh-huh. I was like. It became awe. It became awe, didn't it? We were in awe. Like, people like look at each other in disbelief

at the back of the room, all the comics and crew. Yeah. Because we were just like, just wow. And every gig is done. It's been like that. And there's such,

you know, when you're watching a comic set there'll be times where you will see the punchline coming or you'll see a line coming or they'll do something you go

do you know what I've got a topper for that there was none of that for him and some of the lines that he did like when he referred to his arsehole as Columbo's working eye

yeah I was just like oh god that's the thing is as well he had like a couple of taglines on that that i missed because i was laughing at that yeah because i could hear i could hear that he was still like he was some hard i couldn't even do it justice because i only half heard it but there was like additional lines on that yeah whereas that was that that created such

a wave that he just made that wave a little bit higher and a little bit higher and you he's the kind of comic you'd have to you'd have to watch his special three times to get all of it. Ah, yeah. Because you'd be too busy laughing and stuff. You'd have to pause part of it and go back. I think he probably has got the highest words per minute out of everyone here, doesn't he?

100%. And none of them are wasted. There was zero fat on that set at all. Everything that was in there was in there on purpose and needed to be in there. And even the little bits that, like, when you repeat stuff, he goes, come on, just grow up, you know. And, like, he just took us on such a journey.

And you can see everything. Like, you imagine it in his head when he's bent over on the table and the doctor's wife's come in. Everything about that set yesterday was incredible. And another good Altitude first-time debut, Scott Bennett has been on fire. Yeah, yeah. He's just started skiing again.

He hasn't done it since he was a kid. Yeah. And he's done that again. And he's been up there just analysing, observing, and just coming down with fresh local from the resort. I'll tell you something about Scott Bennett. I reckon Scott Bennett, you could put him in any era of comedy and he'd still work.

The guy's timeless. And he's so likeable as well. And he's just always fun to get with so likable as well and he's he's just oh it's just always fun to mass appeal as well yeah mass appeal it's hard it's hard to appeal to like young people old people and all that without being too pedestrian and sanitized and and that that loses a bit of edge he doesn't lose his edge you can do you can do you can do the most wholesome shit and have you howling without like yeah without feeling like he's pandering to people that don't like swearing or whatever. You don't even notice him swearing.

You know what I mean? And so even when you're saying that, I'm thinking I can't tell you any time that he actually swears. No, because it's irrelevant. He's funny as fuck. Yeah. So your festival has been watching comedy and on the booze, but what have you been doing while we've been up the mountain? What's been your,

what's been your day to day? Oh, I've had to get up at 12. I've been getting up at 12. Um, and I've been, I'm having the holiday of a, a nine year old girl.

Pretty much. I've been reading twilight. Uh, genuinely. Yeah. Cause like from what I've seen, it's been an 18 to 30 club rep. Oh, that's the evening.

That's the evening. Yeah, that's the evening. During the day, and I keep saying to her, I'm like, I'm not drinking tonight. And I've had, even, when was it? When did I do the late show? I think it was Wednesday.

Yeah, Wednesday night. So I don't like to drink before a set. And I think this week has shown everyone why it's that my monday set i was so hungover and marcus had to come out and said about how hungover i was so i thought you know what i'm not even going to mention it i'm going to go out there and do this set and i'm going to no one's going to know and within within about three minutes, my legs just went, I was like, I've got to sit down. And I went to sit

because I looked around for a stool. No stool, but there is the stairs. So I thought, just sit on the stairs. Gracefully, just sit down and have a chat with them.

The moment I started to bend, I realized that the stairs were a lot further away than I thought and just crumpled onto the stairs. And it was like a punch like everyone in the room just went yeah he's fucked after marcus had set it up yeah and literally at that point i was like billy madison i'm gonna take i'm gonna take the second because

i i need this i was like well i'll come and talk to you in a minute and then what i didn't realize that when i got off the stage i hadn't fully walked off the stage before I went oh yeah because the little wings the altitude thing so you just kind of stood where you thought you were behind that but

you're still in view because you're not at the curtain yet I was still at mass view but I thought I was off stage so I sort of just gave up before I even got off

stage so I don't drink I don't really drink before before shows and that that'd be why I had one on my gala show drink before before shows and that that'd be why I had one on my gala show where I went to say

something that was like stealing my mother's vodka and sharing it out for my friends and all of the words just turned into one word and I was just and it was like

I felt like the bit on Bruce Almighty where I get Steve Carroll at Carol's news read Evan the news reader and they're like I was doing

I'd done like a a second of that on stage and I was just like what the fuck just happened to me I just glitched it was on the Wednesday that I had the late night show so because it was so late I was like alright well Wednesday I'm not drinking because I'm not going to drink before the show by the time the show's done

it's going to be too late to drink then anyway you can't start drinking when it's going to be too late to drink then anyway. You can't start drinking when it's going to be like midnight. Yeah. But the show was so much fun, literally instantly came off. I was like, right, we're going to Scotland Yard, who's coming? Yeah. And I said we, like I'd asked anyone.

Yeah. And everyone's like, us? Yeah, we are. Yeah, of course we are. And next thing you know, it's half four in the morning and we're in that dive bar down there. Minging. Yeah. The apropos isn't as bad. Apropos. you know it's half four in the morning and we're in that dive bar down there at Propose yeah

and it was just yeah Propose isn't as bad at Propose Scotland Yard they're just like I don't know what they could make so much money in there but they just don't want to serve you

yeah they take a long time they just take a long time to serve you and they I'd have just taken my own drinks in loads of people do yeah

I can't wait 45 minutes for a drink and it's always packed in there yeah I mean you could quite I reckon they'd get more minutes for a drink. And it's always packed in there. Yeah. I mean, you could quite, I reckon, get more staff in to get it served quicker. But in there, it's packed. But the navigation of, like, you can't, it's one-way traffic. You can't try to have, there's no room to have that bar three deep. Yeah. And that's where it does feel really, really packed.

Yeah. And then we've been going to Apropos instead, which is like foosball tables and Snoopy pool and shit. Oh, foosball tables. We played the slosses. Did you win? Did we win? Oh, we did.

We didn't win at all. The slosses. Me and you played them. No, no, no. I can't remember who else played with us. I couldn't remember that. I definitely got, not you, I got beat off you and Jack. We got beat off

Daniel and his brother and there was a point where they were playing and neither one of them blinked and they just went switch and they just seamlessly swapped positions. I was like,

they've done this before. We're about to lose very badly. This is how they spent all their family holidays. Yeah, I was like, there's no point in me

being here. They're just going to win they're like that we had a table tennis table in one of the spots in Australia it's in Australia

in Brisbane the Gold Coast and they were just all of them smashing us yeah they're well versed at billiard games

that was it's been a whole were you here at any of the times when they turned into a naked bar because of the foosball? No.

Glenn Wool started that tradition, and it's happened on a couple of altitudes where, well, it started off where, like, if you lose a ball, you take an item of clothing off. Right. And then the next one, you get another item off, and she'd, like, decide whether socks one or two or whatever. And then it was Glenn just down to his boxers,

and a ball went in, and he just went, ah then it was Glenn just down to his boxers and a ball went in and he just went ah fuck it and just took his boxers off next thing you know every fuck I played and every fuck I was naked by the end of it

because you can always concede in goals so so it was just practically a naked bar on Apropos it's it's

I'm glad that tradition has come to an end because I was in better nick back then they because they can serve taller than you want to. Well, they stopped serving us. Because I was in better nick back then. Because they can serve to all they want to. And the reason they stopped serving us the other night was they were like, oh, there was someone collapsed in the toilet.

So we've all had enough. Is that how they work last orders there? They just run the nights at an end? Yeah. They just go, enough people are going home. I'd rather you just go, I'm tired, I want to go home.

But don't take it out on us because one person that wasn't even part of our party just check their driving licence and put them in all the way from Austria

through the channel tunnel just send them back that way it'd be fine or you get them they've moved it doesn't matter it'd be fine

this week I've spent most of it reading well I say reading re-reading Twilight yeah I've never read it once reading uh well i say reading rereading twilight yeah i've not i've never read it once oh i am so i'm using i'm doing um is it just like brain chewing goes and he's reading what's your leg against that leg just for the no so basically i'm doing um what's it called celebrity mastermind uh-huh and i i quite a specialist subject

are you doing that for the gimmick? I thought it was funny as a gimmick, and they took me seriously and went, perfect. And I thought, fuck. So they've sent me all of the books. Do you know what Maxwell did? What did he do? Lebanon. Oh, did he?

He chose Lebanon as his specialist subject. It just researched Lebanon to fuck. Yeah. That's got Maxwell all over it. He It just researched Lebanon to fuck. Yeah. That's got Maxwell all over it. He knows a lot about a lot. Yeah. That's what I love when he's comparing when he asks somebody where they're from.

He doesn't just say, man, if I ask him where they're from, I'll probably break into a routine about second languages or something, right? I'm going to like, it doesn't matter where they're from. I don't ask people where they're from because I know that I'm going to draw a blank.

Yeah. You never do ask them. I know so little about a lot of stuff occasionally i'll have a story about where they're from because we travel around yeah right no matter where someone's from maxwell knows about the politics of the town and about their industry and like what will be his history history yeah and weird enough it'll be local knowledge as well. Yeah, right down to the village. Marcus has been incredible this week at comparing. His bit yesterday on how the people saying the Queen was funny,

it was just brilliant. And that story about him borrowing money off his neighbour, that whole set-up, he was such a good guy. Yeah, she was meant to die. She's good guy. Yeah, she was meant to die, she's still alive. I thought she was going to die, she was ill. Oh, it was,

it's been, like every part of this week, I couldn't pick a bad part. do you know what happened to Maxwell, when he, you know how he was ill on the first day, which is like, well,

that's why I've been doing so many gigs, is because there's been like, spots to fill, and I've kind of been, they're not gone, like, you know, Rob Rose went on to the Gala show, there's now like spots to fill and I've kind of been, they're not gone. Like, you know, Rob Rose went onto the Gala show.

There's now a spot available on the nightclub as well. So he decided that when he comes back, he's going to make sure he's got like a fucking solid set, a new material that I haven't seen. He's here every year. He just wants to come back with a bang. And he went through his podcast and he was like taking little notes, funny things that he said,

like we can put this together. I've been working on this bit, put this there. And he had like sheets and sheets of paper solid two hours getting this set together and now he's just got to memorize it he's like i'm gonna go downstairs i'm gonna get a cup of tea i'm gonna come back up and he'd come back up and all of his notes had blown away off the balcony and he hit the garden in the street looking for sheets of paper he found one in a puddle so yesterday just before the show i went into the dressing room to go to

the toilet and he had a load of papers on and they did look quite weird so now that makes yeah does that make sense yeah that's just just all spread out like it all trash them up yes and he was trying to figure out which which part to say and he was like i've just i've got nothing right now and but that's the thing i find that so impressive that he can, in that time go, here's a 20 that looks rehearsed. Yeah. Oh yeah.

Cause it really did. It was so solid. Yeah. Cause like I've, I went up a couple of weeks ago and done red raw and they're just trying out some new material. I was just doing a 20 minute spot, but I was like,

I'll see how far I can get. I got like 15, but it was sloppy. Yeah. And I did like get to the end of bits and completely forget what was coming next and have to do the like slow walk over to my drink like like to pull like there's no way i would have got up and done the gala no with that no with that batch i want to run that at least 20 times before i think i can do the gala

but that's that's confidence That's confidence in your ability. Yes, and the experience in it as well. There's especially, I mean, if you've got a topic that you know well, it's like if you've ever been emceeing and someone will just say something that sparks something that you know really well and you're able to just do it. But when it's, like while just having this conversation with one of the open spots, when it's like we're just having this conversation with uh one of the open spots

when it comes to new material a lot of the difference is confidence because so i actually never really do new material nights because in my mind anywhere i go most of them haven't seen me before to them it's new material yeah if i confidently. So sometimes... But it's more about the muscle memory. Yeah. But I was like, I've just got to do it. And I want it to... I need the danger of it not working.

So you'd go on like a weekend at the Glee and you'd put in a bit of new... I've done that countless times. I do that when I'm hosting. Yeah. Yeah, if I'm hosting and I'm doing it. I will sandwich it in between bits that I know work.

And sometimes I think I'll have something that I've been working on and because it's kind of similar to, so for example, there's got about a 15-minute bit that's all about my kids. And I've been writing new stuff since then. So I did the first bit that landed really well and I thought, do you know what, I'm just going to do the new bits and see how that works. I can go home and rewrite them.

Yeah. But I prefer to try and do it like that. There's some bits where you just know though. Yeah. There's some bits where you've written it really well and it's a bit of a tongue twister and you don't want to fumble the words because the punchline will fail

if the setup's weak. Now what I want to do because we're turning out more comedy and more content and I'm doing stuff which is where your material is going to get burnt I'm like I want to see if I can do

what Maxwell's done and go right out of set and then go and do it the week after and I'm saying the week after he's done and go right out of set and then go and do it the week after. And I'm saying the week after, he's done it the day after. He's done it the day after. Whale sick. Yeah, whilst really,

really ill. was it? Sorry? Broncatus. Oh yeah, yeah. Because you've got like, in London,

we've got the old rope shows that happen on a Monday. I've never done that one. That's been around since the start of time. I've never done it and I'm like, I should do it

because Mondays are damn at home. Is the promise that you hold the rope if you're going to do something you've done before? I don't know. Is there a rope? I think it's just because it's called Money for Old Rope. Yeah, but did they used to have a rope though?

I've no idea. I've never been there. That's one of them folklore things that I don't know if it was true but if you're going to do something you've done before at least let them know. I've no idea I've never I've never been there that's one of them folklore things that I don't know if it was true but like if you're gonna if you're gonna do something you've done

before at least like let them know it's just where pros go to do new material but we're in London we're quite lucky

that we've got places like Top Secret which is a brilliant club to go and do new material because it's known for that a lot of acts

and plus as a punter they love it because they never know who they're going to see. Even the weekend shows are known to be like that as well. They can be, yeah. Yeah. So they prefer you don't. Mm-hmm.

But if you are going to. If you're going to drop in midweek. You might get. You can drop in there midweek. But you might pay a pound to go there on a Friday night and Romesh turns up. Yeah, got you. Mickey Flanagan turns up. And they're going to go and do...

So it's mutually beneficial. Like, it's great for the audience because they're going to get to see those guys and it's great for the bigger guys because they get to come and do it. And they always send out an email going, you'll get an email saying, special TV guest tonight.

And you know it's going to be someone like... Yeah. So then the show's... They're trying to get a new venue now as well that's a new a second second venue because they started in the basement now they've got the room upstairs which has just been changed it's much much better now and their big room works really well so they're they're really they're really they're doing really well and so many pro comics know that if you're gonna go and do some open stuff, quite nice now is,

and it's one of those feelings that made me go, do you know what? You are a pro comic now. Because they were, I was speaking to Mark who runs it. It was like, yeah, just pop down when you want.

And it just made me feel really, really good about it. You've got the pass. Yeah, you can just turn up and go. That's like the comedy equivalent of having the case to the city yeah that stage is yours

whenever you need it yeah if you ever want to do work in progress whatever you want to do just let us know we'll book you in because I remember

and this was going this is probably going back maybe six years I was just sort of getting to the point

where I'm working on getting my 20s at the point where I'm working on getting my 20s at the store and I've got to Top Secret and I'm meant to be doing a 20 and it's

this is a 20 that I was looking to do because Comedy Central were coming down to watch the set and Romesh turned up to do

a set so he was like yeah you're only doing a 10 now and I was just yeah you're only doing a ten now and I was just like you get it but you go they bumped your time

yeah so now did you overrun down yeah no I didn't because because of the storm there

yeah and plus I was on after Romesh I wanted to get off that stage as quickly as I could I'd have quite happily just gone and gone hi and bye

I love that with the Comedy Store like last time I was in there John Bishop was on in it's class because like what we were saying there about like you getting the drop in privileges on there on Top Secret it's a whole new level to get the drop in privileges on the Comedy Store isn't it like when that day comes

that's when you go yeah yeah, you've got this. And that's the thing, he did, oh, God, I'll tell you about the greatest, worst experience for the drop-ins ever in my life. Were you there when Barrymore came? No, no, no, no, Chris Rock. Chris Rock dropped in? Yeah, he was doing the Palladium.

So Chris Rock's turned up and we're all we're all getting told that chris rock's turning up now i've got a really stupid childish brain my brain will start imagining stuff and then convince me that it's going to happen so it's like chris rock's turning up we're gonna meet we're gonna become best friends he's gonna ask me to tour with him around the world we're probably going to start doing films together so i'm going to help him reignite his film career he's going to help me and all of this i'm like we're probably going to be best friends he might get married again you went over to this whole scenario and i was like all of this is going to start with our first handshake when we realize that we are friends.

And as I'm walking back from the bar towards the green room, Chris Rock walks in to the comedy store. So now we're like ships passing. And I'm like, oh, my God, this is what I just thought. This is about to happen. And we both nodded at each other. We gave each other the black guy nod. This is about to happen. And we both nodded each other. We gave each other the black guy nod. That's a big thing.

And in London, you nod to a lot of people. We gave each other the nod. And I got so into the nod that when I reached out to shake his hand, I didn't look at what he was doing, which was reaching up to spud me. So I've gone to shake his hand as he's gone to spud me. And we just stopped like that. And then it was just the most awkward. You better have cracked the joke.

I cabbaged. Oh no, I didn't. Rock, paper, scissors. I was so embarrassed. It was there.

It was there. But also you'd probably heard it. Yes. And to him, you're a muggle. So because I panicked, I'm like, don't say it. there it was there but also you'd probably heard it yes and to him you're a muggle so i've just because i panicked i'm like don't say it my hand just slowly covers his hand softly as well and we're just like and then gone and then i'll where's my phone i'm gonna show you so the experience you

thought you're gonna have with chris rocks is the exact experience I had with Alan Pardew. I'm going to show you this picture, right? And when you go to caption this, I will send you the picture to put on this because I've got to... What, so we caught the photo of you? No, no, worse, worse, worse, worse. So at the end of the night, after he'd done his set,

all the comics were like, look, can we get a picture? And everyone got a picture and you can see very very clearly on mine that he does not want to be there look at how awkward he is he's got no interest he's got no interest of ever seeing me again he's just saying oh come on man backstage this is my safe space yeah he's got no he doesn't want to be

anywhere near me at that point it was just such an awkward meeting question was this before or after

the altitude year 2022 where me and you and Colin kept slapping each other on stage it'd be like

keep your name on my fucking mouth every time we slagged each other off on stage you'd just hear the

footsteps and you'd go I'm gonna get slapped yeah it was after that it was after that yeah it was keep your name on my fucking mouth every time we slagged in the show off on stage you just hear the footsteps you go I'm gonna get slapped yeah it was it was after that it was after

that yeah it was after that one and that's the third he walked

on stage and went I'm not gonna talk about the slap and everyone just lost

their shit yeah that was about enough enough as he needed to he spoke

about it in the special but that that night was definitely it's like

on paper you're like I met Chris Rock I gave a Chris Rock last night dream come true but in reality Instagram versus reality

I made a hash of the intro he didn't want to photo with us but because I say it casually it sounds cooler I met Chris Rock last night

what a thing that's what work is but you've got we're gonna wrap up now because we're gonna go to the late shows and stuff and again maybe see some fondue uh you've got a podcast to plug has it come out yet has it come out it hasn't come out yet it's going to be coming out in the next few weeks you've recorded a few episodes yeah we're a few episodes in we're getting ready to launch it's called uh banging gym so it's already we've already got the links ready so you can go and follow us already on instagram tiktok and then

we'll start they'll be released just over a month and it looks amazing i had a little look at studio there and yeah so yeah everything it's been a lot of fun to do yeah and i think that's that's what's been really nice with it and um it's me and a PT called Richard Callender. He's Davina McCall's PT. And so he's got a whole wealth of knowledge around the subject. So does he work with her on all the DVDs and stuff? He does. He's done a load of the DVDs.

Remember the show The Biggest Loser? So he was one of the PTs on that as well. Got you, right. And so annoyingly, this dude's like he as long as i've known him he's always been jacked and my friend gave me it was it's one of those things you say to someone that trains that just crushes you because i showed in the video to get his opinion like what do you think of this he goes you know what i think it's really cool that you're that comfortable that you don't mind getting someone bigger than you to sit on the podcast and my heart broke i was like

really believe that we were sort of the same same height same size i didn't actually think you were big at all yeah i was like somebody does somebody clearly does and then now your podcast set up you're just a little bit closer to the camera so So now my editing has changed where I'm going a bit. I was like, let's, no, we'll put your chair slightly down. It's easy. You're getting dickhead dumped at Photoshop here a little bit bigger. Yeah, so keep an eye out for that podcast coming out. You can find Emanuel on all the social medias.

Emanuel Sanubi. You got your own name on it, imagine. No, Emanuel Stand Up. No one knows how to spell the same name ever that's so just emmanuel stand up emmanuel stand up with two m's as well people always forget that and when i'm at gigs the most un sort of cool you think it's very cool what we do and you go to a level where you do some very cool gigs there's nothing less hollywood than typing your own name into someone's phone and then following yourself so i was like so two m's everyone always get misses that one yeah so

find that and also um now is about a good time to start saving up for altitude 2025 yeah because i think i'm gonna come next year just for the sake of it that's exactly if i wasn't because they have to they've got a pool acts that are regulars yeah right but they haven't always got 100 of those acts because that wouldn't work you need to have like 50 to 75 of those guys and they want to bring a new act and to give it a fresh feel yeah but also have the running core so you're going to be swapped in and out like colin and elliot uh swapped out this year and Gareth but like me and Daniel are back in and that kind of like churning rotation of people

but if I was at home and not booked I'd come as a punter yeah 100% would now next year

I might be in Australia but I'm not entirely sure so I'm going to be like figuring out that I would even I would even try and work out how to get here from Australia. I think this is the best comedy festival there is. Every time it's the best week I ever have in my life.

And it's my staff room. It's my Christmas party. It's where I'll get to hang out. We're all doing our own tours. It's the comedian's holiday. I love this week. I'll get the hang of it. We're all doing our own thing. It's the comedian's holiday. I love this week. So my, I'll tell you this quickly. My kids are on their club rugby tour

and I coach my son's rugby team. So if I'm not here next year, I know I will probably be on that tour as well. And I already know that I'm going to hate every second of it because I'm not here. So since your first altitude, you haven't missed one, have you? I haven't missed one.

I can't even explain to you how bad that formal is. Yeah. You could be doing anything in the world and you're devastated you're not here. When Brett was saying, like, do you want to do altitude? Because I said to him, you got me for altitude, right? And he goes, do you really want to do it again? I was like, yes. You've done it like this.

I think this is like my fourth year. And he was like, I don't want to miss it i'm coming yeah and you may as well utilize this yeah uh yeah there was 2019 me and ian cotman joe on the same building like um in melbourne right we're both just miserable for a week. Yeah. In Melbourne. Fucking. This is the best comedy festival. And everyone, like Dara Brim, absolutely annihilated that room yesterday. Aye, it was class. I could have watched the same set again immediately after. Yeah. It was that good.

There was so much to it. Yeah. That I was like, again, let's watch it. Some of your favourite music. Yes. And again, I went past watch some of your favourite music. Yes. And again, I went past laughing. It was just awe. Just having that conversation with the dude.

Everyone's been on amazing form. And I think you bring it out of each other because you're in an environment, like you said, where everyone's great. So you're like. You've got to step. No one wants to be the one to go, oh, they were all right. You don't want to be. Because that's the level that everyone is here.

Like I said, you've got a line-up of closers. You've just got to keep up with the pack. Yeah. And I think, for the most part, everyone's fucking nailed it. Yeah. So hopefully you'll see us here in 2025. But there's a podcast that we're recording, Up the Mountain Live. Paul Smith's on it, Mark Nelson's on it and

Alan Pardew's on it, Laurie Smith Seamus Nelson, Sonny Vincent, these are children that I'm rhyming off by the way it was so inappropriate so yeah that's going to be out when it's ready which will probably be after this one thanks Emmanuel, cheers buddy